If André Villas-Boas is to find consolation in the circumstances in which
Tottenham Hotspur conspired to lose against Liverpool, it will surely be
that the fixture list features no more visits to Merseyside, the scene of
two self-inflicted defeats that bookended their 12-game unbeaten run.

Almost three months to the day since Tottenham shipped two goals in the
closing minutes to turn a seemingly certain win against Everton into a loss
at Goodison Park, they allowed another lead to slip at Anfield and in doing
so left their manager perplexed at how their superiority had again gone
unrewarded.